Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 719-726.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.05.13

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The Relationship between Parental Style and Cyber Victimization of Junior High School Students: A Longitudinal Study

WU Peng, ZHANG Qi, WANGYANG Chunzi   

  1. Department of Psychology, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062
  • Published:2021-09-23

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Abstract: School victimization is an important and prevalent problem in society. In recent years, with the high-speed development of information technology and network, a new form of victimization has emerged, that is, cyber victimization. With the increasing number of adolescents using the Internet, cyber bullying may cause more harm than traditional bullying. So the junior high school students' cyber victimization is an important part of the research on adolescent problem behavior intervention. To provide theoretical guidance for intervention programs, researchers are required to obtain the results of longitudinal studies. The present research examined the developmental trajectories of cyber victimization by employing a longitudinal, four-wave design. Moreover, the current research also examined the impacts of parental style. The sample consisted of 491 adolescents (51.56% boys) in grade eight, who was followed up for two years from grade eight to grade nine. Using latent growth mixture modeling, various developmental trajectories of cyber victimization were examined. To explore the effect of parental style on the developmental trajectories of cyber victimization, logistic regression and latent growth modeling were utilized to analyze the data. The results indicated that:(1) the junior high school students' cyber victimization presented a decreasing trend significantly in the period of 2 years; (2) there were two downward trends, namely, rapid decline and slow decline; (3) among the parenting styles, father rejection, father over protection and mother rejection increased the incidence of cyber victimization of both groups. At the same time, it also reduced the decline rate of the cyber victimization; (4) the father emotional warmth had a significantly prediction on the initial level and the speed of development of the rapid decline group, and the mother emotional warmth had a significantly prediction on the speed of development of the slow decline group. Overall, these findings have some important implications for the prevention and intervention of the adolescent Internet victimization and support the Kowalski's Cyberbullying Model.

Key words: cyber victimization, parental style, developmental trajectories, latent growth mixture model, junior high school students

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